It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows.

It permits data to be interpreted distinctly, meeting the specific needs of diverse industries, users and disciplines rather than a generalized, universal format.

For polygonal geometry, the wavefront obj format is as close to a universal format as I'm aware of.

Many of these problems would be solved if Medicare mandated a universal, open-source format for electronic health records and subsidized its introduction.

I think that what's really needed is for the technology to settle down to a universal format, or codec.

No, I hope that by then we will have a universal format.

SQL (structured query language), on the other hand, is an industry-standard, nearly universal format for compiling information in a database.

"It's for all the folks that have a hard time understanding EP's and want things in a more universal format," explained Foreman.

Mobi had some pretty big limitations, and it made more sense to start from scratch for a universal format.

Biograph relented in 1903, discontinuing use of 68mm and adopting the increasingly universal 35mm format at this time.